Song lyrics of Dave Matthews Band
Dave Matthews Band
Live at Red Rocks (1997)
Seek Up |
Proudest Monkey |
Satellite |
Two Step |
The Best of What's Around |
Recently |
Lie in Our Graves |
Dancing Nancies |
Warehouse |
Tripping Billies |
Drive In Drive Out |
Lover Lie Down |
Rhyme & Reason |
#36 |
Ants Marching |
Typical Situation |
Watchtower
Seek Up
Sometimes I feel like I'm falling.
Fall back again, fall back again,
Fall back again, fall back again.
Oh, life it seems a struggle between
What we think what we see.
I'm not going to change my ways
Just to please you or appease you
Look at this crowd, nine thousand proud
Willing to punch it out
Right, wrong, weak, strong
Ashes to ashes all fall down
Look around about this round
About this merry-go-round and around
If at all God's gaze upon us fall
His little mischievous grin, look at him
Forget about the reasons
And the treasons we are seeking
Forget about the notion that
Our emotion can be kept at bay
Forget about being guilty,
We are innocent instead
For soon we will all find our lives swept away.
Look at me in my fancy car,
And my bank account.
Oh, how I wish I could take it all down
Into my grave, God knows I'd save and save
Take a look again, take a look again,
Things you have collected well
In the end it all piles up so tall
To one big nothing one big nothing at all
Forget about the reasons
And the treasons we are seeking
Forget about the notion that
Our emotion can be kept at bay
Forget about being guilty,
We are innocent instead
For soon we will all find our lives swept away.
And you know how it is!
you seek up an emotion
and your cup is overflowing
you seek up an emotion,
sometimes your well is dry
you seek up a big monster
for him to fight your wars for you
but when he finds his way to you,
the devil's not going--ha, ha
fall back again, fall back again, fall back again...
Say, oh say aaaah
Late at night with tv's
Hungry child his belly swells
Well, for a price of a coke or a smoke
I keep alive those hungy eyes
Take a look again, take a look again,
Take a look again
Everyday things change, basically they stay the same
Forget about the reasons
And the treasons we are seeking
Forget about the notion that
Our emotion can be kept at bay
Forget about being guilty,
We are innocent instead
For soon we will all find our lives swept away.
And you know how it is!
You seek up an emotion
And your cup is overflowing
You seek up an emotion,
Sometimes your well is dry
You seek up a big monster
For him to fight your wars for you
But when he finds his way to you, the devil's not
Going--ha, ha, ha, ha
Fall back again.
Fall back again.
Fall back again.
Fall back again.
Fall back again, yea yea.
Fall back again.
Fall back again.
Fall back again.
Fumble our ways through our days.
Oh walk through our days.
Soon when hate takes control now,
Theres nowhere to go now.
How about giving yourself
In love for a change.
Proudest Monkey
Oh he's standing there in that tree
Oh I love thats not enough for me.
So I paved the road to the city,
And brought the rest of the monkeys.
See momma see.
See momma see.
I'm a small monkey.
Now I am the proudest monkey that i know.
Monkey see, monkey do.
Monkey see, monkey do.
Monkey see, monkey do.
When I walk, I walk so tall.
Not bend up doubled up like the other monkies that I know.
Still I dont know if I have a soul,
Or if heaven's a place to go,
Or if hell's where we burn,
Or if sinnin's what we do.
I'm the smartest monkey that I know.
Monkey see, monkey do.
Monkey see.
This monkey thinks he so great
Who taught this monkey to burn
Who taught this monkey to turn
In the trail with his friends
We are the proudest monkies
We are the proudest monkies
You and me are the proudest monkies
You and I are the proudest monkies
Monkey see monkey do . . . (repeats over and over)
Satellite
Satellite in my eyes
Like a diamond in the sky
How I wonder.
Satellite strung from the moon
And the world your balloon
Peeping tom for the mother station
Winter's cold spring erases
And the calm away by the storm is chasing
Everything good needs replacing
Look up, look down all around, hey satellite
Satellite, headlines read
Someone's secrets you've seen
Eyes and ears have been
Satellite dish in my yard
Tell me more, tell me more
Who's the king of your satellite castle?
Winter's cold spring erases
And the calm away by the storm is chasing
Everything good needs replacing
Look up, look down all around, hey satedlite
Television we boence 'round the World
<@R>And w`ile I s`end these hours
FiDe senser reeline,
I laugh about the weathebman's satellite eyes.
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Satelhite in ey eyes
Like a diamlnd in t`e sky
.BR>How A wonder.
S`tellite strung from the moon
And the world your bahloon
Peeping tom fgr the mgther station
4BR>
Winter$s cold Ppring eRases
And the calm away by .he storD is chasing
Everything gooD needs `eplacinD
Ldok up, dook dowL all arkund, hea satellate
Best hig above dhe clou$s no restrictions
Television you bounce from the world
And while I spend these hours
Five senses reeling
I laugh about this weatherman's satellite eyes.
Two Step
Say, my love, I came to you with best intentions
You laid down and gave to me just what I'm seeking
Say love, watch me now.
You and I, walk into my days love against,
Behold that this
No better have I felt than now my love
You my love do you believe that we might last a thousand years
Or more if not for this,
Our flesh and blood
It ties you and me right up
Tie me down
Celebrate we will
Because life is short but sweet for certain
We're climbing two by two
To be sure these days continue
These things we cannot change
Love and I walk to me like wine comes to that mouth
Grown tired of water all the time
You quench my heart and quench my mind.
Oh And now waiting on the hour
Comes back to me
And now with you right by my side
Well i almost have been alone
Godsend godsend celbrate we will
Celebrate we will
Because life is short but
Sweet for certain baby
Climbing two by two
To be sure these days continue
The things we cannot
What about today
Celebrate we will
To be sure these days continue
Climbing two by two
To be sure these days continue
Things we cannot change
Oh, my love I came to you
With best intentions
You laid down and gave to me
Just what I'm seeking
Say love watch me turn wail
You and me, celebration,
Oh if you climb a way out of here
Turn in celebration
We oh my godsend won't you help me out.
. . .
The Best of What's Around
Hey my friend
It seems your eyes are troubled
Care to share your times with me
Would you say you're feeling low and so
A good idea would be to get it off your mind
See, you and me
Have a better time than most can dream of
Have it better than the best
And so can pull on through
Whatever tears at us
Whatever holds us down
And if nothing can be done
We'll make the best of what's around
Turns out not where but who you're with
That really matters
That really matters, hey
And hurts not much when you're around, when your around
and If you hold on tight
To what you think is your thing
You may find you're missing all the rest
She run up into the light surprised
Her arms are open
Her mind's eye is
Seeing things from a
Better side than most can dream of
On a better road I feel
Oh So you could say she's safe
Whatever tears at her
Whatever holds her down
And if nothing can be done
Will make the best of what's around
Turns out not where but what you think
That really matters
That really matters
That really matters
See, you and me
Have a better time than most can dream of
Have it better than the best
And so can pull on through
Whatever tears at us
Whatever holds us down
And if nothing can be done
We'll make the best of what's around
Turns out not where but who you're with
That really matters
That really matters, hey
And hurts not much when you're around, when your around
The best of what's around
The best of what's around
Your the best of what's around
The best of what's around
Recently
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
Sunshine almost always make me high
Look at what we got
Some people drink, some people dont
Some people think and some people wont
Some people like to smoke a bowl and some dont
Some people do and some people dont
But its ok cuz it was meant to be that way
Some people do and some people dont
Some people do and some people won't
Some people do, some people dont
Some people do, some peole dont
Recently I've been
All of content and dreaming I have been
'Cause I been lately seeing
Quite a bit of this woman live on my street
People stare and we just ignore and just ignore everything
People stare and we just ignore them
And they go away, go away, go away, go away
She comes to me
I watch her drink
I watch her comb her hair
Both say that we never before have
Felt as recently
People stare and we just ignore
What's the use in hiding out
She says all the time
Let their eyes do the worrying
She and me go to places quiet
Where we are quite alone
Kiss and we hold together
We will be until we done
People stare and we just ignore
What's the use in hiding out
She says all the time
Let their eyes do the worrying
Let, oh yea yea
Walking till we both do quite well
And kissing all the time all the time
And looking and looking and looking.
So we dance away around all a row of roses
We do our best to contain this thing inside everyone
So fear we fear
And fear to speak to no one else
I will give you water if you will share your wine
I will feed your heart if you promise to feed mine
'Til we will dance together, 'til the end of time
'Til the end of time
Lie in our Graves
When I step into the light
My arms are open wide
When I step into the light
My eyes searching wildly
Would you not like to be
Sitting on top of the world with
your legs hanging free
Would you not like to be ok, ok, ok?
When I'm walking by the water
Splish splash me and you takin' a bath
When I'm a walking by the water
Come up through my toes
To my ankles
To my head
To my soul
And I'm blown away
I'm blown away
I'm blown away . . .
When I'm walking by the water
Splish splash me and you takin' a bath
When I'm walking by the water
Come up through my toes
To my ankles
To my head
To my soul
And I'm blown away
And I'm blown away
I'm blown away
I can't believe that we would
Lie in our graves
Wondering if we had
Spent our living days well
I can't believe that we would
Lie in our graves
Dreaming of things that we
Might have been
I can't believe that we would
Lie in our graves
Wondering if we had
Spent our living days well
I can't believe that we would
Lie in our graves
Dreaming of things that we
Might have been
Would you not like to be
Would you not like to be
I can't believe that you
Would you not like to be
Would you not like to be
Ok, ok, ok
Ok, ok, ok
Ok, ok, ok
Ok, ok, ok
'Til we dance away . . .
Dancing Nancies
Well . . .
Don't you ever wonder
Maybe if things had been slightly different
You could be somebody else
Don't you wonder
Maybe if you took a left turn instead of taking it right
You could be somebody different
Don't you ever wonder
Could i have been
Don't you ever wonder anyone
Dont you ever wonder
Well god could i have been
Don't you ever wonder anyone
Could I have been
A parking lot attendant
Could I have been
A millionaire in Bel Air
Could I have been Lost somewhere at Red ROcks
Could I have been
Your little sister
Could I have been
Anyone other than me
Could I have been
Anyone other than me
Could I have been
Anyone other than me
Could I have been
Anyone
He stands touch his hair his shoes untied
Tongue gaping stare
Could I have been a magnet for money?
Could I have been anyone other than me?
Twenty three and so tired of life
Such a shame to throw it all away
The images grow darker still
Could I have been anyone other than me? Then I
Look up at the sky
My mouth is open wide, lick and taste
What's the use in worrying, what's the use in hurrying
Turn, turn we almost become dizzy
I am who I am who I am who am I
Requesting some enlightenment
Could I have been anyone other than me? Then I
Sing and dance I'll play for you tonight
Thrill of it all
Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes
But I'll work it out then I
Look up at the sky
My mouth is open wide, lick and taste
What's the use in worrying, what's the use in hurrying
Turn, turn we almost become dizzy
Falling out of a world of lies
Could I have been dancing Nancy
Dancing Nancy . . .
Could I have been anyone other than me?
Sing and dance la la la hey la la la hey la la la
Sing and dance la la la hey la la la hey la la la
Sing and dance I'll play for you tonight
The thrill of it all
Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes
But i'll work it out
Look up at the sky
My mouth is open wide, lick and taste
What's the use in worrying, what's the use in hurrying
Turn, turn we almost become dizzy
Warehouse
Hey reckless mind
Don't throw away your playful beginnings
You and I will fumble around in the touches
And be sure to
Leave all the lights on
And the black cat changing colors
And you can walk under ladders
And swim as the tide turns you around and around
Hey we have found
Becoming one in a million
Slip into the crowd
This question I found in the gap in the sidewalk
Keep all your sights on
And if the the black cat changes colors
I can walk under ladders
And swim as the tides choose to turn me
And here I sit
Life goes on, end of tunnel, TV set
Spot in the middle
Static fade, statistical bit
And soon I fade away, I fade away
This I admit
Seems so good, hard to believe an end to it
Smell touch feel
How could this rhythm ever quit
Bags packed on a plane
Hopefully to heaven, yeah.
Shut up I'm thinking
I had a clue now it's gone forever
Sitting over these bones
You can read in whatever you're needing to
Keep all your sights on
The big bad black cat that's
Changing colors
Well it's not the colors that matter
But that they'll all fade away
And life goes on, end of tunnel, TV set
Spot in the middle
Static fade, statistical bit
And soon I'll fade away, I fade away
This I admit
Seems so full
Hard to believe an end to it
Warehouse is bare
Nothing at all inside of it
Walls and halls have disappeared, they've disappeared
My love I love to stay here
My love I love to stay here
My love I love to stay here
Such a simple thing to get
If things could be better than this
Many have changes and they have come
In the warehouse
The warehouse
The warehouse
In the warehouse, my love I love to stay here
The warehouse, time is of the moment
The warehouse, wouldn't you love to stay here every man
Thats how they come down here
Born from the hands of angels
Then trickle into the ground
Warehouse buried down deep
Tripping Billies
We were above
You were standing underneath us
We were not yet lovers
Dragons were smoked
Some bumblebees were stinging us
I was soon to be crazy
Eat drink and be merry
For tomorrow we'll die
Eat drink and be merry
For tomorrow we'll die
'Cause we're tripping Billies
We're wearing nothing
Nothing but our shadows
Shadows falling down on
the beach sand
Remembering once, out on
the beaches
We wore pineapple grass bracelets
So why would you care
To get out of this place
You and me and all our friends
Such a happy human race
'Cause we're tripping Billies
We are all sitting
Legs crossed around a fire
My yellow flame she dances
Tequila drinking, oh,
our minds will wander
To wondrous places
So why would you care
To get out of this place
You and me and all our friends
Such a happy human race
Eat drink and be merry
For tomorrow we'll die
Eat drink and be merry
For tomorrow we'll die
Eat drink and be merry
For tomorrow we'll die
Eat drink and be merry
For tomorrow we'll die
Eat drink and be merry
For tomorrow we'll die
Eat drink and be merry
For tomorrow we'll die
Drive In Drive Out
I hear more than I like to...
so I boil my head in a sense of humor...
I laugh at what I cannot change...
I throw it all on the pyre again...go then and do this
I'd do it for you...
when all that I want is so badly to be...
by myself again...
it's going to drive me right out of my brain
Drive in drive out I'm leaving
Drive in drive out
I'll come back again
Drive in drive out I'm leaving
Drive in drive out
I don't care if we all turn to waste...
so when I beg...you avoid me...because I smell of dirt... hungry,
hungry boy...you won't leave me all alone...the boy won't go
Sooner or later we're done
Sooner or later I'm gone
because, because
Sooner or later we're gone
Sooner away
Ooh, my head is pounding now...god has all but left me behind...
not a sense of worry...I'm going to drive in and drive out again
Drive in drive out I'm leavin
Drive in drive out I'll come
Drive in drive out I'm leavin
Drive in drive out
I'm over this arrangement...
around here...emptiness
sounded so good...I want to
drive you right into my world
Drive in drive out I'm leavin
Drive in drive out I'll come
Drive in drive out I'm leavin
Drive in drive out
Lover Lay Down
Spring sweet rhythm dance in my head
Slip into my lover's hands
Kiss me oh won't you kiss me now
And sleep I would inside your mouth
Don't be us too shy
Knowing it's no big surprise
That I will wait for you
I will wait for no one but you
Look please lover lay down
Spend this time with me
Together share this smile
Lover lay down
Walk with me, walk with you
Hold my hand your hands
So much we have dreamed
And you were so much younger
Hard to explain that we are stronger
A million reasons life to deny
Let's toss them away
See you and me we
Lay down look see
She and he
By my lover's side
Together share this smile
Each other's tears to cry
Together share this smile
Lover lay down
Oh please
Look please lover lay down
Oh please lover lay down
And you weep
Lover lay down
Cause it's over
Lover lay down
Say lover, say lover, say lover, say lover, say lover
Could I love you
Could you love me
Could you love me
Could you love me
Could you love me
Darling it's
All the same
All the same
All the same
All the same
'Til we dance away
'Til we dance away
'Til we dance away
'Til we dance away
Chasing me all around
Leading me all around
Leading me all around in circles
Leading me all around in circles
Say...
Rhyme & Reason
Oh well oh well so here we stand
But we stand for nothing
My heart calls to me in my sleep
How can I turn to it
'cause I'm all locked up in this
Dark place--
And I do not know I'm as good as dead
my head aches--
Warped and tied up I need to kill this pain
My head won't leave my head alone
And I don't believe it will
Until I'm dead and gone
My head won't leave my head alone
And I don't believe it willl
Until I'm six feet under gound
How long I'm tied up
My mind in knots--
My stomach reels in concern for what i might do or
What i've done
It's got me living in fear
Well i know these voices must
Be my sould i've had my grave
Lying wired and shut and quiet in my grave
Leave me here
Leave it to me to waste here
So young and here I am again
Talking to myself
A tv blares
Oh man
Oh how I wish I didn't smoke
Or drink to reason with my head
But sometimes this thick confusion
Grows until I cannot bear it all
Needle to the vein
Needle to the vein
Take this needle from my vein my fiend
I said
In my grave
Lying, lying cold in my grave
The reason--my reason
Take my head off this terror
The fearing won't come back
I can't see my mind's all wiped clean
The needle
Make my great escape
I seem caught in time
My head leaves me behing
Body fall cold
And I have seen heaven
#36
yeah I scream...
With you on my mind so heavy and so hard
I don't know quite everything
You make me think of a better thing...
Better things to fill my day with
But they don't mean to go
Please don't be too bad with me, God
Please don't be too good...
Let some women's light, women's light
Chain my hands with me singing...
Hani Hani, come and dance for me
Whoa, whoa, sooner there
Hani Hani, come and dance for me
Only the brave
Hani Hani, come and dance for me
(feeling the night)
Hani Hani, come and dance for me
Lead me back home to life
You made Heaven turn to dirt
And dirt turn to dance on
Heaven come my way
Baby surely do
Maybe some moonlight
Maybe some, baby surely do
Maybe some moonlight
Say this say this...
Hani Hani, come and dance for me
Underneath the moonlight
Hani Hani come and dance for me
Hani Hani, come and dance for me
Come on, come on go
Hani Hani, come and dance for me
Give it back, give it back....
Oh man, I can't talk
A man was tall and once tore a piece of freedom for us all
When, then, you least expect it
Man can cut from of his own heart
For us all, that man
Don't believe it, oh yeah....
God, two men slice and dice each other up in his place
They don't believe it...
Well leave it
Leave it lying, leave it lying, leave it lying
Got me singing
Hani Hani, come and dance for me
Ants Marching
He wakes up in the morning
Does his teeth bite to eat and he's rolling
Never changes a thing
The week ends the week begins
She thinks, we look at each other
Wondering what the other is thinking
But we never say a thing
These crimes between us grow deeper
Goes to visit his mommy
She feeds him well his concerns
He forgets them
And remembers being small
Playing under the table and dreaming
Take these chances
Place them in a box until a quieter time
Lights down, you up and die
Driving in on this highway
All these cars and upon the sidewalk
People in every direction
No words exchanged
No time to exchange
And all the little ants are marching
Red and black antenna waving
They all do it the same
They all do it the same way
Candyman tempting the thoughts of a
Sweet tooth tortured by the weight loss
Programs cutting the corners
Loose end, loose end, cut, cut
On the fence, could not to offend
Cut, cut, cut, cut
Take these chances
Place them in a box until a quieter time
Lights down, you up and die
Typical Situation
Ten fingers we have each
Nine planets around the sun repeat
Eight ball is the last if you triumphant be
Seven oceans pummel the shores of the sea
It's a typical situation
In these typical times
Too many choices
Everybody's happy
Everybody's free
We'll keep the big door open
And everyone'll come around
Why are you different
Why are you that way
If you don't step in line
We'll lock you away
Six senses keeping
Five around a sense of self
Four seasons turn on and turn off
I can see three corners from the corner
Two is a perfect number
But one, well
Everybody's happy
Everybody's free
We'll keep the big door open
And everyone'll come around
Why are you different
Why are you that way
If you don't get in line
We'll lock you away
Everybody's happy
Everybody's free
We'll keep the big door open
And everyone'll come around
Why are you different
Why are you that way
If you don't get in line
We'll lock you away
It's a typical situation
In these typical times
We can't do a thing about it
It's a typical situation
In these typical times
Too many choices
We can't do a thing about it
Too many choices
It's a typical situation
In these typical times
Too many choices
Everybody's happy
Everybody's free
We'll keep the big door open
And everyone'll come around
Why are you different
Why are you that way
If you don't get in line
We'll lock you away
Everybody's happy
Everybody's free
We'll keep the big door open
And everyone'll come around
Why are you different
Why are you that way
If you don't get in line
We'll lock you awaaaaaaaay
Everybody's happy
Everybody's free
We'll keep the big door open
Everyone'll come around you'll see
Why are you different
Why are you different
If you don't get in line
We're going to put you away
If you don't get in line
We'll lock you away
All Along the Watchtower
There must be some way out of here,
said the joker to the thief.
Too much confusion
I can't get no relief
Business men they,
Drink my wine.
And plowmen dig my earth.
None of them along the line
Know what any of it's worth.
"No reason to get excited,"
The thief he kindly spoke.
There are many here among us,
Who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I we've been through all that,
Yes we have
And this is not our fate.
So let us not talk falsely,
Now the hour is getting laaaaaaate
And All along the Watchtower,
Prince's kept the view.
While all the women all the women all the women came and went
Barefoot servants too.
Outside in the cold distance,
A wild cat did growl la la la la la
Two riders were approaching,
The wind began to howwwwwllll
Yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
And All along the Watchtower,
Prince's kept the view.
While all the women came and went
Barefoot servants too.
Outside in the cold distance,
A wild cat did growl
Two riders two riders were approaching,
The wind began to howwwwwllll
No reason to get excited.
Yeah.
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